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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Caring for children The News International, January 28, 2008 www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=93308 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 June 2011] The rise in
incidents of street crime in Plight of street children worsens The Nation, [accessed 14 October 2012] The report indicated
that street children are the victims of unplanned economic growth, war,
poverty, domestic violence and the violence at schools and madrassas, he
said. It was mentioned that majority
of street children are in the age of 13 to 18 years (79.03%) followed by
those in the age group of 9 to 12 years (15.22%) and up to 8 years old
(5.71%). Most of them belong to Punjabi community followed by Urdu, Pashto,
Burmese and Bengalese. The research revealed that majority of street children
is either orphans or affectees of broken families Majority of street
children use drugs as 92% of them admitted that they use various kinds of
drugs however 8% denied any use of drugs at any stage of their lives. About
75% of the respondents admitted that they smoke cigarettes, 70% use charas, 66% inhale glue and I5% use heroine. After having
drug a majority of 66% respondents admitted experiencing violence. Depression is very
common among street children and, while talking about the high occurrence of
physical, emotional and sexual violence, 66% of the respondents admitted that
they self-inflected themselves while 26% denied and 8% didnt
give any response. About 85% cut with blades and knives while 15% burn
themselves. Street Children and child abuse The Justice tjfpk.tripod.com/children.html [accessed 1 July 2011] While most child
workers have homes to return, the street children are completely alone and at
the mercy of their employers, and circumstances night and day. Their number
of meals is one to three daily, often getting leftover from the restaurants
and eating-places in the areas they hang around. Many are also found in the
vicinity of religious shrines where people donate food for the poor. ***
ARCHIVES *** A Video Playlist
for Playlist developed by Brian Horne of
almudo.com & streetkidnews.blogsome.com www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A41572E6D3839140 [accessed 26 September 2011] There are an
increasing number of street children videos now available that constitute a
supplementary source of information for researchers, especially for those who
may not have experienced the reality of street children. UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan.html [accessed 1 July 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/pakistan.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The provincial
government of the Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61710.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] CHILDREN
- According
to a foreign aid organization, of the 18 million children between the ages of
5 and 9, only 42 percent were in school. Less than half of children who
enrolled completed more than five years of education. Out of every 100
children who enrolled, only 6 completed grade 12. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3
October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/pakistan2003.html [accessed 15 December 2010] [78] The Committee
expresses its concern at the increasing number of street children and the
vulnerability of these children to violence, torture, sexual abuse and
exploitation, the lack of a systematic and comprehensive strategy to address
the situation and protect these children, and the very poor registration of
missing children by the police. The brave tender souls Experience by Salman Nizami,
Greater www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2010/Oct/28/the-brave-tender-souls-14.asp
[accessed Oct. 29, 2010] The weather has
suddenly turned colder in valley. The sun is hidden behind the clouds and the
jagged peaks of the mountains which overlook the city are thick with snow.
The street children are sheltering from the chill - huddling in doorways. One
boy I often see in the morning charging around near the guest house in Shalimar
where I was stayed covers his head with his ragged and blackened jacket to
give himself some relief from the cold. There are numerous children who wait
outside the guest house hoping for some work with me on the laptop, According
to them working on laptop means earning good money. Most of them are contract
labourers, shoe shiners, handicraft, fruit,
vegetable vendor boys and I have got to know a number of them. There is Ibrahim
whose serious face contrasts with his pink Mickey Mouse baseball cap, and Irfaan who is painfully thin, and constantly asks the
same question: "Mister, how are you?" And then there is Wajid, with his brown curly mop of hair and cheeky smile.
My favourite is Aabid, a
shy boy, who talks slowly in Kashmiri language. His sombre
expression belies his young age just 13. They all have similar tales, a
father dead due to the Male prostitution, a hidden shame: See no
evil, hear no evil, speak no evil Fawad Ali Shah, Daily
Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\01\13\story_13-1-2009_pg12_9 [accessed 30 June 2011] Despite the fact
that the phenomenon is increasing by the minute, no government body or NGO
has conducted a survey to find out exactly how many men are in this business. However, he said
that there was a need for the collection of the exact numbers of males in the
prostitution business as well as their customers to spread awareness about
the diseases that sprout from the phenomenon. “There are almost 30,000 street
children in the country, who are usually the victims of sexual abuse, as time
progresses these children are so used to being exploited that they decide to
use the exploitation to earn quick money,” he added. Male-prostitutes are
without a doubt spreading many diseases however, no one cares about it, as
the issue for most people is non-existent, Dharejo
adds. Development: Protecting Syed Mohammad Ali, Daily Times, December
09, 2008 www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\09\story_9-12-2008_pg3_3 [accessed 1 July 2011] HIV/AIDS increasing in country Amer Malik, The News
International, www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=149992&Cat=5&dt=11/30/2008 [accessed 30 June 2011] Most of the
15,000-20,000 estimated child sex workers present in Though the trend of
selling organs (kidney.) for cash does not seem to have caught hold in Lahore
or was not reported, quite a few children were aware of the fact that they
could sell their blood for money if the need arose. The limited blood
screening facilities make such practice extremely unsafe and can spread
HIV/AIDS on a rapid scale. Though not a single child admitted to resorting to
this practice, they had come to know about this through adult drug addicts. In Pakistan, the
estimated population aged below 18 years is 71 million, and 3.6 million
children are involved in child labour. About 1.2 million children are on the
streets in Pakistan’s large cities, working as beggars, vendors or shoeshine
boys. Incidents of child abuse rarely reported Irfan Aligi,
Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\11\04\story_4-11-2008_pg12_11 [accessed 30 June 2011] “We have conducted
a study on violence against street children and the data we have collected is
quite shocking, and what is most appalling is that children studying at
religious seminaries also fall victim to sexual violence,” claimed Habib. He added that it is common practice amongst parents,
especially from the lower strata of the society, prefer to send their
children to Madressahs as compared to formal
schooling systems. According to the
study, 21 percent of Madressah students have been
sexually abused by their teachers. Fifty-two percent of students were
sexually harassed, 28 percent had complained of unpleasant touching and 20
percent complained of forced sex, said Habib. Almost ninety
percent of sexually violent acts against children occur on the streets, seven
percent of the children denied any sexual abuse on the streets and three
percent of these children had no idea about any such happenings. Thirty-three
percent of the children who were sexually abused on the streets revealed that
they were abused by people in police departments, while 22 percent of them
held workers of political, social and religious parties responsible, claimed Habib. This is not the end
of the shocking list, as shopkeepers, strangers, gang leaders, private
security guards and drivers were also held responsible for sexual violence.
Twenty percent of the children reported that 20 percent of strangers, 12
percent of shopkeepers, 11 percent of gang leaders, 14 percent of private
security guards and 22 percent drivers were among the perpetuators of sexual
violence against them. –
sccp Child abuse mushrooming as shops offering
‘services’ spring up Qadeer Hussain,
The News International, thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=144233&Cat=4&dt=11/1/2008 [accessed 30 June 2011] Tauqeer went to school for
a while but soon developed a habit of running away from home. In the
beginning, he started selling tissue papers at Sea View and earned Rs100 to Rs120
daily. However, two years ago, one of
his friends, Naveed (not his real name) asked him
to visit Jahangir Park, near the Pedestrian Bridge, (which does not exist
now), “to earn more money.” According
to Tauqeer, the world of the Pedestrian Bridge “was
altogether a different world.” This was the meeting point for male child
prostitutes and their clients. According to Tauqeer, more than 300 children are engaged in this area
alone. “There are two categories of children involved. A majority are street children who earn their
livelihood through this mean. Then there are kids who belong to poor families
and visit the bridge to earn some extra money,” he says. – sccp Two million youth in [accessed 14 October 2012] In UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80510 [accessed 1 July 2011] Asif, 16, was among 53
"lost" boys, aged between eight and 16, who boarded the bus on the
morning of 16 August to return to his parents' house. Asif remembers he had
four siblings and cannot wait to go home. "I think I will be able to recognise them once I see them," he says. But he was
just nine when he got lost, in a market, and eventually found himself in
Karachi. NUMBERS RISING - Social workers say
Pakistan has a large population of runaway or lost kids, estimating their
number at more than 70,000. Navaid Hasan Khan of Azad Foundation, an organisation
working with street children, estimates there are between 13,000 and 15,000
in Karachi alone and the number is increasing. The UN Children's Fund,
UNICEF, estimates there are 10,000 in Karachi. Many of the parents
who took back the children "were ecstatic to see them, but they told us
they will send them back to us as it means one less mouth to feed", he
said. 'Rat people' forced to beg on Agence France-Presse AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOmE7u7DlUpw1GwT37ut9uc1xf7A [accessed 15 December 2010] "Some of these
children, the handicapped ones especially, are accompanied by
relatives," he told AFP. "But begging gangs also look for poor
parents who will sell them because they are a burden to feed and
shelter." Sohail
said his department had busted more than 30 gangs across the province
involved in exploiting street children,
some of which had broken the limbs of children so that they would earn more
as beggars. –
htsc Deadly ‘token’ heroin emerges as DAWN/The News International, 199.238.130.165/news/Jul_08/070308.html#heroin [accessed 14 October 2012] Over the past four
months, newly-introduced cheap, substandard heroin has proved to be fatal to
child drug addicts on the streets. The new brand of heroin, also known among
the children as “token” or “Sanghara,” is widely
available throughout the city at Rs12 per sachet. Children who previously used the well-known
glue Samad Bond are the biggest “token” addicts.
They can no longer afford Samad Bond. A pack that
cost Rs75 in 2000 is now being traded at Rs170. “What other choice have I got?” says Tufail, a child on the streets who switched to token
after the price of Samad Bond went up. Token is the cheapest option available. It
is also one of the most lethal. According to a
spokesman of the Edhi Foundation, children living
on the streets who are also drug addicts die before reaching the age of 23.
Over the past six months, he said, 145 bodies of heroin addicts had been
picked up off the streets. Forty percent were children. City faces alarming rise in addicts,
juvenile beggars Shafi Baloch,
The Nation, [accessed 14 October 2012] Owing to the
rampant unemployment of their parents due to off-fishing season, a number of
fishermen’s children have started involving in begging and drug trafficking
and this trend has resulted in a sharp rise in the number street children
making their percentage up to 40 % in the metropolitan. acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0228/461/ [accessed 1 July 2011] An estimated 1.2
million children are on the streets of "World Vision
is gravely concerned with their growing numbers. Children are turningto the streets amidst increasing poverty,
unemployment, swelling family size and social disintegration seen in abuse in
schools, as well as domestic violence, neglect and family breakdown,"
said World Vision Country Director, Sigurd Hanson. "Street
wise" as early as four, these children beg and scavenge around rubbish
dumps or industrial waste sites or take on menial jobs as cart pushers or
dish washers, working 12-15 hours a day to earn around 75 rupees or US.25-
enough to buy a meal if they are fortunate. Most survive by prostituting
themselves, stealing or smuggling, making them vulnerable to contracting
sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Jaundice and liver
or kidney disorders. A large proportion sniffs cheap, readily available
solvents to starve off hunger, loneliness and fear. Street Children and child abuse The Justice tjfpk.tripod.com/children.html [accessed 1 July 2011] While most child workers
have homes to return, the street children are completely alone and at the
mercy of their employers, and circumstances night and day. Their number of
meals is one to three daily, often getting leftover from the restaurants and
eating-places in the areas they hang around. Many are also found in the
vicinity of religious shrines where people donate food for the poor. Seminar on corporal punishment: 35,000
school students drop out every year Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\05\01\story_1-5-2008_pg11_4 [accessed 1 July 2011] Thirty-five
thousand students drop out of high school every year in the country due to corporal
punishment in schools and homes, said Qindeel Shujaat, Executive Director, Society for Protection of
Rights of the Child (SPARC), in a seminar “Media Consultation on Child Rights
and Protection Issues” on Wednesday. Shujaat said corporal
punishment in schools and homes, a culturally accepted form of child abuse,
had resulted in high dropout rate from schools and ever-growing number of
runaway children on the streets. Shujaat said Plight of street children worsens The Nation, [accessed 14 October 2012] The report indicated
that street children are the victims of unplanned economic growth, war,
poverty, domestic violence and the violence at schools and madrassas, he
said. It was mentioned that majority
of street children are in the age of 13 to 18 years (79.03%) followed by
those in the age group of 9 to 12 years (15.22%) and up to 8 years old
(5.71%). Most of them belong to Punjabi community followed by Urdu, Pashto,
Burmese and Bengalese. The research revealed that majority of street children
is either orphans or affectees of broken families Majority of street
children use drugs as 92% of them admitted that they use various kinds of
drugs however 8% denied any use of drugs at any stage of their lives. About
75% of the respondents admitted that they smoke cigarettes, 70% use charas, 66% inhale glue and I5% use heroine. After having
drug a majority of 66% respondents admitted experiencing violence. Depression is very
common among street children and, while talking about the high occurrence of
physical, emotional and sexual violence, 66% of the respondents admitted that
they self-inflected themselves while 26% denied and 8% didnt
give any response. About 85% cut with blades and knives while 15% burn
themselves. 25,000 street children vulnerable to
diseases The News International, 08 April 2008 www.apnakarachi.com/25000-street-children-vulnerable-to-diseases.html [accessed 1 July 2011] This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] They urged the
government to create awareness on HIV and Aids and other sex related diseases
to save street children. Speakers said
more than 25,000 children were living on streets in the city. They said there
were some 70,000 children living on the streets in the country. An estimated
7,000 children live on the streets in Lahore, 10,000 in Faisalabad, 2,500 in
Quetta, 3,000 in Rawalpindi and 5,000 in Peshawar. Nazra Jahan of Sparc said street
children were one of the most vulnerable groups for all forms of
exploitation. They were at high risk of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV
and AIDS because of their early exposure to both heterosexual and homosexual
practices. Caring for children The News International, January 28, 2008 www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=93308 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 June 2011] The rise in
incidents of street crime in Children on an empty stomach on empty
streets Amar Guriro,
Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\12\31\story_31-12-2007_pg12_4 [accessed 1 July 2011] At a time when all
the commerce in 9,000 sexually-abused street-children in
City www.chowk.com/applefire/iLogs/life/Child-prostitution-in-Pakistan [accessed 30 June 2011] UNICEF Programme Officer Shamshad Qureshi announced the results of a UNICEF survey that
there are 10, 000 street children in School with no buildings gives hope Umber Khairi, BBC
News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7028159.stm [accessed 1 July 2011] Tucked away in a
quiet corner in the Pakistani city of City centres
thronged by street children Terence J Sigamony,
Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\01\story_1-10-2007_pg11_8 [accessed 1 July 2011] Children at Pirwadahi and Faizabad are
living in unhygienic and squalid conditions. They live in under-construction
buildings, hotel basements and verandas of bus stands. Majority of such
children has come to the city with expectations to fend for themselves or
their families through various occupations but after arriving here, they
discovered that streets were not paved with gold. Saiqa Ashraf, a
psychologist working on child sexual abuse, said these children become
criminals, terrorists, revolutionaries, drug addicts and abusers. “They are
starving and ignorant, destined to become thieves or victims of child sexual
abuse. The girls become prostitutes but there is also male prostitution. The
boys are uncontrollably violent and have lost the ability to feel emotions
such as love. For the most part they are amoral,” she commented. Curbing beggary among children: CDGR to
open seven child protection centres Terence J Sigamony,
Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\28\story_28-8-2007_pg11_5 [accessed 1 July 2011] The City District
Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) with the help of the Shelter for street children arranged The News International, August 26, 2007 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 July 2011] A local NGO Sehar foundation has arranged temporary shelters for the
protection of street children against torrential rains at different marriage
halls in The management of
these halls not only agreed that their spaces be used for this purpose but
also took upon the responsibility to arrange meals for these children. Pakistan has highest infant mortality rate
in South Asia: SPARC Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\30\story_30-6-2007_pg7_23 [accessed 1 July 2011] The report gave a
dark picture of the Pakistani children’s condition. About 6.463 million
children did not go to school, which was the second largest number of such
children in a country, it said. In Karachi alone the number of street
children was 25,000 and almost four children were sexually molested daily. Pahchaan planning drop-in centre for street kids Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\16\story_16-5-2007_pg7_37 [accessed 1 July 2011] Dr Naeem Zafar, president of Pehchaan, said the NGO was providing several services
including food and shelter, skill building courses, hygiene courses, rest and
recreation, psycho-social counselling, detoxification and legal protection.
Also, the organisation was educating 200 street and working children in the city. Police encouraged to cooperate with street
children The News International, This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] A situation
analysis of Horrific fate awaits children spurned by
society Aroosa Masroor
Khan, The News, www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=43990 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Consequently, an
increasing trend in sex exploitation was also witnessed over the years. As
disclosed by the street children near Bahadurabad
and Allahwala Chowrangi,
they continue to be harassed and sexually abused at the hands of passers-by.
Due to this fear, these children prefer spending most of their time at
drop-in centres that are operational during the
day. “We feel more scared at night because that is when truck drivers and
policemen harass us, but this centre is helpful because they teach us self-defence techniques,” says 13-year-old Umair Ali who has been living on the street for four
years after he ran away from home because his family pressurised
him to get a job. Most of the
children, spotted in Saddar, Karimabad,
Tariq Road, Kala Pul and parts of Clifton, when
refused job opportunities, resort to pick-pocketing or sell sex for their day-to-day
survival. The money earned is then spent on addictives like cigarettes, drugs
and inhalants, mostly glues such as ‘Samad Bond’.
“There are a lot of small hotels and restaurants that offer us food so that
is never an issue for us. We don’t earn to make a living. The streets are
where we spend our lives. It’s the drugs we need money for,” adds Umair, who further revealed that he was addicted to glue
sniffing, a habit he is unwilling to give up. – htsccp Findings show dismal state of children in
country Mohammad Kamran, Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\02\19\story_19-2-2007_pg11_1 [accessed 2 July 2011] Child rights groups
have estimated that over 50,000 children live on the streets of Pakistan,
while most of the juvenile population continues to be vulnerable to bonded
labour, harassment, sexual abuse and trafficking, and lacks access to health,
education and other basic needs. Many street
children are also addicted to drugs and have been sexually assaulted. It has
been reported that 56 percent of street children run away from their homes
due to domestic violence, 22 percent because of hostile behaviour
of their parents and 12 percent due to their parents’ drug addiction. Parents renting children out to gangs:
Report Internews, This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] Referring to such
reports, he said as early as four, these children beg and scavenge around
rubbish dumps or industrial waste sites and took on menial jobs as
cart-pushers or dishwashers working 12-15 hours a day to earn around Rs75 —
enough to buy a meal. A report compiled
by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) said most children survive by prostituting
themselves and stealing, making them vulnerable to contracting sexually
transmitted diseases (STDs) such as HIV/Aids.
“They are also at high risk from health problems such as tuberculosis,
jaundice and kidney disorders.” The report suggests
that 83 per cent of street children were sniffing glue between the ages of
eight to nineteen. Some 54 per cent left home at age 10-12 while 45 per cent
children living on the streets are involved in crimes and 49 per cent are at
high risk of HIV/Aids. Waheed Khan, Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/2007/01/08/idUSISL114216 [accessed 2 July 2011] The Pakistan
Medical Association says substance abuse among street children has reached
alarming levels. "If more is not
done soon, Pakistan is heading for a street children hooked on glue crisis on
the scale of other countries like Morocco and Brazil," said Qaiser Sajjad, the association's
general-secretary. There are about 14,000 street children in Karachi and most
are sniffing glue, said Aksa Zainab,
a social worker who helps street kids at a drop-in centre operated by the
Azad Foundation in cooperation with UNICEF. Vulnerable and helpless on the street Amir Zia, The News International, December
20, 2006 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] A majority of them
are drug addicts. The most popular and affordable of the durg
is a type of glue -- used mostly in home repair and maintenance -- which these
children inhale by putting it on a piece of cloth. One can see young boys
sniffing this glue openly on the streets and pavements that according to one
user, "tingles nose and make one slightly drowsy." The use of other
drugs including hashish, and even heroin are also rampant among many of these
streets children. Organised gangs of criminals
-- peddling drugs or operating begging rackets -- take these children under
their wings and use them in criminal activities. Many children also resort on
their own to begging and petty crimes, raising enough money to buy themselves
food and favourite drug. Govt, masses urged to
rehabilitate street urchins www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=34580 [Last access date unavailable] Recalling an
incident where a child was abducted from Data Darbar
and admitted to a hospital, he said that one kidney of the child was removed
in an operation. The matter was being probed by the authorities concerned,
but the society at large was responsible for such incident. Mary de Sousa, United Nations Children's
Fund UNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan_36506.html [accessed 2 July 2011] Rehan, who may be
“nearly 18,” does not have the physique of a teenage boy. That’s because Rehan is actually Rehana, a
girl disguised as a boy to survive on the streets of Heera
Mandi, Lahore’s red-light district. “Can you imagine what would happen to me if
I dressed as a girl?” she asks. Street children in Pakistan at risk of
contracting Aids Internews, This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] The phenomenon of
street children in www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1383624 [accessed 2 July 2011] “Street wise” as early as four, these
children beg and scavenge around rubbish dumps or industrial waste sites or
take on menial jobs as cart pushers or dish washers, working 12-15 hours a
day to earn around 75 rupees or US$1.25- enough to buy a meal if they are
fortunate. Most survive by
prostituting themselves, stealing or smuggling, making them vulnerable to
contracting sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Jaundice
and liver or kidney disorders. A large
proportion sniffs cheap, readily available solvents to starve off hunger,
loneliness and fear. Number of street
children on the rise acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0236/483/ [accessed 2 July 2011] Living on the rough
and tumble streets of Indo-Asian News Service IANS, 5/8/2005 citynewslive.com/fullstory2k5-insight-news-status-24-newsID-3716.html [accessed 2 July 2011] Poverty and
domestic physical and mental abuse "are the key factors that lead
children to begin a life on the streets.
Be it economic or social factors, street children leave their homes
for an uncertain future. Many find
work collecting waste paper, cleaning cars, working as shoe shiners or in
small eateries. Some fall back on
begging, pick-pocketing or offer themselves to sex perverts, while others end
up as drug addicts. They use inhalants
that are cheap and easily available but cause irreversible brain damage. Street Freedom - Mohammad Anwar, DAWN, 12 December 2002 www.paklinks.com/gs/culture-literature-and-linguistics/81843-hired-for-a-massage.html [accessed 22 August 2011] [posted Dec 13th,
2002, 06:22 PM] Thirteen year-old Zahid spends his nights at Cantt
railway station in Thousands of Ahmad Naeem Khan,
OneWorld South Asia, This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] They may not have
access to drugs like heroin and marijuana, but that doesn't stop thousands of
street children in Information about Street Children - This report is taken from “A Civil Society Forum
for South Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street Children”,
12- 14 December 2001, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] Street Children and Juvenile Justice in Pervaiz Tufail
(AMAL Human Development Network) with the assistance of Thomas Feeny and Marie Wernham
(Consortium for Street Children CSC), Spring 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] In his trial, Iqbal
made a point of claiming that as no one ever notices when a street child
disappears, he could have gone on to kill 500 before anyone took action. The revelation of Iqbal's
horrific crimes, committed with two teen accomplices, woke up human rights
groups in All
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